‘Sh-t. Meet. Fan.’ Off Broadway Review: Phone Games Upend a Night With Debra Messing, Jane Krakowski and Neil Patrick Harris

Robert O’Hara’s new comedy lets fly a lot of crap about horny white people

Debra Messing and Jane Krakowski in "S--t Meet Fan" (Credit: Julieta Cervantes)
Debra Messing and Jane Krakowski in "Sh-t Meet Fan" (Credit: Julieta Cervantes)

George and Martha put their guests Nick and Honey through a series of nasty games in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Add three more visitors and a bunch of iPhones, and you get Robert O’Hara’s new comedy, “Sh-t. Meet. Fan.,” which opened Monday at the MCC Theater.

Jane Krakowski, playing a miniskirt-wearing wife and mother of a miniskirt-wearing teenager (Genevieve Hannelius), hosts with her dull husband (Neil Patrick Harris) a most unusual party. They all gather ostensibly to watch a lunar eclipse from the spacious terrace of the couple’s Dumbo apartment (fabulous set by Clint Ramos). Krakowski’s Eve suggests that everybody, including their five guests (Garret Dillahunt, Debra Messing, Michael Oberholtzer, Tramell Tillman and Constance Wu), keep their iPhones on and face up on the living room coffee table.

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